30.1327, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 30.1327, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 06:09:20
From: Kristin Stock [k.stock at massey.ac.nz]
Subject: Speaking of Location 2019: Communicating about Space

 
Full Title: Speaking of Location 2019: Communicating about Space 

Date: 10-Sep-2019 - 10-Sep-2019
Location: Regensburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Kristin Stock
Meeting Email: k.stock at massey.ac.nz
Web Site: http://geoinformatics.massey.ac.nz/speakingofLocation2019.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

Research into the description of location using human (natural) language has
been approached from linguistics, geospatial, and computer science
perspectives. This interdisciplinary combined workshop and tutorial will
explore current developments in the area with a particular emphasis on the
need for communicating about location across different contexts and for
diverse purposes, and the particular challenges these differences cause for
automatic generation, extraction and interpretation of natural language
descriptions of geographic space.

The Scope

-approaches to automated extraction and understanding of natural language
descriptions of location in textual sources;
-approaches to automated generation of natural language location descriptions;
-both verbal and written geospatial natural language;
-work on natural language related to both static and dynamic (movement) -work
that aims to understand/explore/investigate the use of natural language
descriptions of location;
-future priorities in geospatial natural language research;
-geospatial natural language and ontologies;
-contextual factors in the use and interpretation of geospatial natural
language;
-real world applications that motivate the use of geospatial natural language;
-geospatial natural language querying;
-recent/current technological developments and their links to geospatial
natural language (e.g. social media, crowdsourcing);
-links between language and spatial cognition and behaviour;
-robotics and geospatial natural language;
-connections between geospatial natural language and other areas of research
(e.g. qualitative spatial reasoning, semantics).

The Format:

The event will include:

-A keynote talk from Dr Clare Davies of Winchester University, UK.
-20-minute presentations of reviewed 5-8 page papers discussing current work
in progress and future research directions and ideas.Submitted papers will be
peer reviewed by members of the program committee.
-Five-minute position pitches, in which presenters give a summary of a
research idea or viewpoint, culminating in the posing of a question of set of
questions for discussion. These will be based on abstracts that will be
checked for relevance.
-A 2-hour tutorial on Cognitive Discourse Analysis (Tenbrink, 2015): How to
deal with language in spatial information and cognition research
-A panel discussion on the workshop subtheme 'communicating about space', and
particularly addressing the need to communicate locations across different
contexts and for diverse purposes, and the challenges this places for
generation and interpretation of geospatial natural language.


Call for Papers:

Research Papers:

We invite submission of papers that describe current research/work in
progress, between 5 and 8 pages in length including references. Submitted
papers will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee, and accepted
papers will be given a 15-20 minute presentation time slot during the
workshop. Accepted papers will be published online in some form (e.g.
CEUS-WS.org, workshop web site, University repository), and avenues for more
formal publication will be discussed during the workshop.

Position Pitches:

We invite submission of one-page position pitches, describing research ideas,
proposals, opinions about the state of the research field or other material
relevant to the workshop, and including one or more discussion questions.
Accepted position pitches will be given a 5 minute presentation time slot,
followed by time for discussion of the questions posed. Submitted position
pitches will be reviewed for relevance by the workshop organisers.

Instructions for Authors:

Papers should be between 5 and 8 pages in length (including tables, figures,
and references).  No specific formatting style is required, but authors are
encouraged to use the standard COSIT format. Papers must be clearly presented
in correct, grammatical English. References can be in any style or format as
long as the style is consistent. Submissions will be accepted through
Easychair (link pending).

Key Dates:

Research Paper submission: 10 June 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 2019
Final version submission: 31 July 2019
Position Pitch Submission: Submissions can be made at any time up to 15 August
2019 and notification will be made within 2 weeks of submission.




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